“But, alas! The practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father’s heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor: and seeing what the sailors did there, and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: Christians Both Wicked and Miserable (Herman Melville)”
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RKS Literature: The Pulpit as the Prow of a Whaling Ship (Herman Melville)
“What could be more full of meaning? -For the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first decried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the GodContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Pulpit as the Prow of a Whaling Ship (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The Women of New Bedford and Salem (Herman Melville)
“And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match the bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Women of New Bedford and Salem (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: The Gold Rush of Whaling in New Bedford (Herman Melville)
“There weekly arrive in this town scores of Green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. Many are green as the Green Mountains whence theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Gold Rush of Whaling in New Bedford (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Timid Warrior Whalemen at Breakfast (Herman Melville)
“These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstances that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence. And not only that, but they looked embarrassed. Yes, here were a set ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Timid Warrior Whalemen at Breakfast (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Sleeping with a Cannibal (Herman Melville)
“Ye gettee in’ he added, motioning to me with his tomahawk, and throwing the clothes to one side. He really did this in not only a civil but a really kind and charitable way. I stood looking at him a moment. For all his tattooing he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.Continue reading “RKS Literature: Sleeping with a Cannibal (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: No Reason for a Sailor to Sleep in a Bed for Two (Herman Melville)
“No man prefers to sleep two in a bed, In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in aContinue reading “RKS Literature: No Reason for a Sailor to Sleep in a Bed for Two (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)
“And still deeper the meaning of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the keyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)”
RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)
“And I always go to the sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.Continue reading “RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)”
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